On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:27:09PM -0700, Zuoxin.Wang@kp.org wrote:
> test=# select used from patient;
> used
> ------
> N
> N
> (2 rows)
Try
select '{' || used || '}' from patient;
> test=# select first_name, last_name, used, birthday from patient;
> first_name | last_name | used | birthday
> ------------+-----------+------+------------
> | 1960-02-01DI | N
> | 1960-02-01DI | N
> (2 rows)
Looks like you have some non-printable character in the used column.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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